Actress Taylor Schilling, 34, is known for playing Piper Chapman, a woman convicted of money laundering, in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, and is about to star in a horror film, The Prodigy, playing the mother of a disturbed son. She lives in New York.

Acting is not easy and it’s not glamorous. Not everyone can do it. There’s a lot of rooting around inside yourself; it takes a lot of work and it is exhausting. You’re not allowed to be unaware of yourself or your patterns of behaviour in this profession.